Just converted to winpho, and I love all the integration and fluidity as everyone says. But I feel like it takes up way too much data.
tl;dr. data usage hitting 10+mb daily, <3mb on android. wtf?
I find myself hitting 10mb+ daily, when i was below 3mb on android. WiFi continuously on (it wasn't on android either). I browsed wiki (one page) and used bing once, and found myself at 10mb halfway through the day. The only running app with data usage (that i know off) is 2 gmail account (probably 20 emails total, all text), with 30min interval and metrotalk (google voice client).
Looking at tmobile data spreadsheet, my phone seems to randomly access about 5+mb (up to like 13mb) daily in one section of time, and everything else below 1mb. I stream no music or video.
Not a new toy syndrome either, I used the phone for half a month already and found this trend.
Data Usage spreadsheet from t-mobile. http://bit.ly/JVQk0C
This is frankly, ridiculous. That would be like downloading a giant app a day. what could possibly my phone be doing?
phone: nokia 710
edit: i did the math, wp7 avg. at 15mb/day while android at 4mb/day wtf? (same usage for the most part)
Moved to Q&A for you mate, should get you a few more opinions
I actually found WP7 much easier on my data allowance than Android. Don't forget that your live tiles etc. will use data to refresh, and having your Google voice client open all the time may not be doing you any favours, either. It's entirely possible that the Voice client on Android hibernates one way, and the client you're using on WP7 does it another way
You could always turn off the xbox live synchronisation with your games and the zune account for the music. I believe they will take up some of your data. You should also check any of your applications that might use the internet a lot! By the way, why don't you use push notifications for your google accounts? Those might use your data too!
There are number of services that can use data in the background. A few suggestions of things to check:
Make sure the feedback info is either turned off or set to only send over WiFi.
Un-pin the Me tile, or accept that WP7 will need to ping Facebook to see what your contacts are saying about you (may also apply to the People tile).
Marketplace tile probably uses a little data, checking for updates, but it should be minimal.
Games hub definitely uses som data, if it's synching with the Xbox Live servers (not sure how much).
A small bit of Marketplace configuration data is downloaded nightly, but it should be only a few KB.
Tip: Leave the phone plugged in all night, even if it doesn't need it. WiFi turns off when the screen is locked, unless the phone is plugged in. No, that behavior is not (yet) configurable.
I note this too after NoDo update. At the begining, my phone uses a little of data every day (some Kb, never goes far than a Mb). I use data to sync my hotmail account, gmail account, rss channels, some webpages. After NoDo update, my phones starts to consume a lot of data (more than 10Mb every day with the same uses). Then mango goes out and i think maybe they fix this situation. Today my phone have 8107 and the data usage is over the clouds. I switch on data connection manually and my data usage is more "normal". I know my phone has a lot of new services over the cloud but i can't maintain its appetite of data.
I recently came back from a two-month trip and started using my ATT sim card again. My Infuse is basically the same as when I left - Infused 2.23, no major changes.
All of a sudden my data usage has gone from an average of a couple of megabytes (at the most) a day to over ten. I only have a 200mb plan, so this is a problem.
I installed traffic monitor; unfortunately most of the data used falls under the heading of "System Traffic," which cannot be researched further. New build of Maps? Some rogue system program? I can't figure out how to find out what it is, and a google search wasn't particularly helpful.
Something is different, and I don't know what it is.
Anyone facing a similar situation or have any clues?
Start uninstalling apps and watch your usage to see which is the culprit.
Sent from my not-an-iPod
Thanks. That's a good idea, but it's all system apps, not apps I've installed. None of them are causing any trouble. I'm not even sure which are all the system apps...
Some apps I noted:
1. Quick Office Pro uses like about 20k on phone start up; not sure if it does it every time. There could be a few more apps that do this.
2. Google voice syncs itself
3. Push emails send info to server saying the link can be used
4. Maps new build could be a possible culprit (I keep mine frozen all the time now, and defreeze it only when needed)
I noticed this even on my wife's iPhone sometimes when she gets 65% usage sms (she has a 200 MB plan), and she's always on WiFi at home, and sometimes the data usage on AT&T site shows up to 20-30 MB per session. No way to track it. I tried taking it up with them, but that won't help since AT&T too does not track which app or what data it is.
I have notices since I rooted my 1.85 HOX I have had a huge spike in data usage. I downloaded both Onavo Count and My Data Manager to take a deeper look (the native Usage monitor was not detailed enough). The Onavo points to the data being used by "Android OS + Others" while the My Data Manager shows Download Manager as a pretty big hog (6MB an hour).
Any ideas on this. I trolled around some forums and everyone just days to shutoff background data and its fixed. Tried that and this morning in an hour I had downloaded 1MB in 10 minutes on Mobile data.
Any help on what could be eating up my data is appreciated. I rarely go above 1.5GB a month and in the last 3 days I have used 2GB.
kp1321 said:
I have notices since I rooted my 1.85 HOX I have had a huge spike in data usage. I downloaded both Onavo Count and My Data Manager to take a deeper look (the native Usage monitor was not detailed enough). The Onavo points to the data being used by "Android OS + Others" while the My Data Manager shows Download Manager as a pretty big hog (6MB an hour).
Any ideas on this. I trolled around some forums and everyone just days to shutoff background data and its fixed. Tried that and this morning in an hour I had downloaded 1MB in 10 minutes on Mobile data.
Any help on what could be eating up my data is appreciated. I rarely go above 1.5GB a month and in the last 3 days I have used 2GB.
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Similar thing happened with my wife's phone, ended up being related to her email settings which she had changed the option from default of not including attachments to include the attachments; due to all the pic's she had been emailing her data spiked to just at a Gig in just a few days.
My girlfriend's media storage app is sucking 45% of her data plan. The thing is she does no streaming, or plays games. All she does is check her email (no attchments) maybe four times a day. She is running Froyo.
Ive used LBE to kill its permissions, but I still would like to know why its doing this on her phone.
Thanks, Nylo
Rooted AT&T GB233 Inspire
Hi All, I have a Nexus 6P, Android 8.1, on the Google Project Fi network
I have the MLB At Bat app (baseball) and it was working fine for a while - I keep background data off for most of my apps because Project Fi's data costs are expensive and as such I've had background data turned off for MLB At Bat since I installed in a couple of months ago. This week however it used over 1GB of background data (and over 10GB of wifi data which I don't care so much about) How is it possible that it used background data when it was disabled? I'm checking all the time now to see that the app is closed (force stop) whenever i'm not specifically using it.
While the app does allow audio and video streaming I don't use it for that, just for push notifications for team news and such. I see a couple of recent reviews on that app's Play Store page that say exactly the same thing I'm saying - but don't mention if background data was turned off or not for them.
I guess my question is, how is it possible that it sucked up background data while it was disabled and is there an app or something I can install that will stop that from happening again? or at least alert me that there's a rogue app costing me a fortune?
Thanks!